At the close, at 17 h 41 (Brasília time) this Monday (19), the commercial dollar registered a drop of 0.63% and was traded at R$ 5.5480. The Ptax fell 1.03%, to R$ 5.5750. The day follows market expectations for global economic recovery in the face of advances in vaccination against coronavirus and resumption of economic activities, especially in the United States and European countries. In Brazil, the Central Bank (BC) today held a traditional swap auction to roll up to 15 thousand contracts with maturity in November 2021 and April 2022.
Despite having informed that the Economic Activity Index of the Central Bank (IBC-Br) of Brazil, a preview of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Brazil, registered a jump of 1.7% in February, against an increase of 0.98% in January.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.